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News Temporary boiler for Hospital

September 30 2008

Watkins Hire has supplied a packaged plant room to one of the North East's largest primary health care trusts. The trust had a building on one of their sites that had the onsite boilers fail. This left the administration staff of the hospital without any heat for the foreseeable future.

Watkins Hire specialist hire manager Chris Easterlow carried out a detailed building survey, he looked at the situation on site including transport access, available space for siting equipment, site power conditions, routes for flexible heating pipework. Chris ran through the whole project before leaving site so that the maintenance manager had a plan of Watkins Boiler Hire solution.

A HeatGEN MBR250 Packaged heating boiler plant room was selected to match the heating demand required for the building demand and because the efficiency (92%) offered the trust a cost saving on the fuel and the super quiet sound level (45 Dba@10m) ensured no disturbance to patients or staff.

The Facilities Manager said

“Watkins Hire were on site within 2 hours of us placing the enquiry, their specialist sales manager completed his survey and had a solution to our problem whilst still in our office. When all of the options were considered we made the decision to place the contract with Watkins Hire. The operation of the packaged plant room left us with no hesitation that this was the right piece of equipment for the job. Along with the equipment being available and Watkins Hire offering a Web based fuel management service, it leaves us with piece of mind that the staff will have no complaints about being cold.”

The next day the packaged plant room delivered by Watkins Hire own transport and the hire unit along with the bunded fuel tank was sited outside the building, the MBR250 has a dual circuit system which can deliver heating and domestic hot water although on this project it was only the heating that was required. The equipment was connected to the customers pipe work via a system of flexible hoses and distributed to two separate heating circuits in the building via a manifold system that was supplied by Watkins Hire. To prevent any members of the public tripping over the flexible hoses Watkins Hire also supplied pedestrian ramps to cover the flexible hoses. The whole system was operational and delivering heat to the building within 4 hours of the packaged plant room being delivered to site.

The Facilities manager commented on the process after the installation had been completed

“We have never had the need to hire a unit of this type before but due to the speed and professionalism in the way Watkins Hire acted and helped us was incredible, we are very happy to recommend Watkins Hire because of the standard of the equipment supplied and the level of service supplied by Watkins Boiler Hire. They handled the whole project with speed and competence, we have now asked Watkins Hire to supply contingency plans for each of our sites in case we need to act quickly in the future.”